Patents Assigned to Apple
  • Patent number: 12068996
    Abstract: Methods, systems, apparatus, and computer programs, for providing uplink control information to an access node. In one aspect, the method can include actions of determining, by a UE, a time-domain orthogonal cover code (OCC) for a PUCCH message of a UE to multiplex the PUCCH transmission with one or more PUCCH messages from one or more other UEs, and encoding, by the UE, the PUCCH message for transmission by the UE using the OCC.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Avik Sengupta, Alexei Davydov, Sameer Pawar, Guotong Wang, Gregory Morozov
  • Patent number: 12066293
    Abstract: Some embodiments provide a map application that identities a transit route that includes one or more transit legs between a starting location and a destination location. In response to a request to start navigating the identified transit route, the map application of some embodiments provides a first display area for displaying a set of navigation instructions, each of which describes a transit maneuver that is associated with a transit leg of the transit route. The map application also provides a second display area for displaying a map region presentation associated with the navigation instruction that is displayed in the first display area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Usama M. Hajj, Marcel Van Os, Brian Andrich, Ian Leighton, Justin O'Beirne, David Hodge, Eleanor Cady Wachsman, Nathaniel V. Kelso, Aaron A. Reiner, Christine B. McGavran, Wesley Yue, Eric L. Grundstrom
  • Patent number: 12068989
    Abstract: The exemplary embodiments relate to signaling between a user equipment (UE) and a cell over the unlicensed spectrum. The UE may receive a signal broadcast by a cell of the network over a channel in the unlicensed spectrum. The signal includes a set of channel state information reference signals (CSI-RS) each corresponding to a set of synchronization signal blocks (SSB) and is transmitted during a discovery reference signal (DRS) window. The UE may then determine a location of the set of CSI-RS within the DRS window and perform an operation based on the set of CSI-RS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Hong He, Chunhai Yao, Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Haitong Sun, Oghenekome Oteri, Wei Zeng, Weidong Yang, Yushu Zhang
  • Patent number: 12066867
    Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with a display having a flexible substrate with fastened bent edges. The flexible substrate may have an active region that includes an array of light-emitting elements such as organic light-emitting diodes. The flexible substrate may also have inactive regions that lie outside of the active region. The bent edges may include portions of the inactive regions and portions of the active region. The bent edges may be wrapped to conform to the shape of an internal support structure. The bent edges may be fastened to the support structure with fastening members that attach a housing member or an internal clamp to the support structure. The bent edges may be secured between the housing member or the internal clamp and the support structure. The fastening members may be engaged in openings in the support structure and may pass through or alongside the bent edges.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: John Raff, Scott A. Myers, Christopher Stringer
  • Patent number: 12066795
    Abstract: An input device includes a movable input surface protruding from an electronic device. The input device enables force inputs along three axes relative to the electronic device: first lateral movements, second lateral movements, and axial movements. The input device includes force or displacement sensors which can detect a direction and magnitude of input forces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Colin M. Ely, Erik G. de Jong, Steven P. Cardinali
  • Patent number: 12067275
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed relating to an I/O agent circuit. The I/O agent circuit may include a memory bank and be coupled to a set of devices. The I/O agent circuit may assign a device of the set of devices to a subdomain of a plurality of subdomains implemented for the memory bank. The I/O agent circuit may store, in that memory bank, a set of transactions of the device in association with the subdomain assigned to the device. The I/O agent circuit may execute the set of transactions such that transactions stored in the memory bank in association with other ones of the plurality of subdomains than the subdomain assigned to the device do not block execution of the set of transactions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Samer Nassar, Sagi Lahav, Lital Levy-Rubin, Roey Grinvald
  • Patent number: 12068981
    Abstract: Supporting high speed train (HST) schemes at a user equipment (UE) may include, in response to being within range of a transmission and reception point (TRP) of a plurality of TRPs associated with an HST, decoding a communication received from a network. The communication may include an HST scheme configuration. The HST scheme configuration may include an HST-single frequency network (HST-SFN) without network pre-compensation scheme and an HST-SFN with network pre-compensation scheme. At least one of a channel restriction and an environmental restriction associated with the HST scheme configuration may be identified. Based on the at least one of the channel restriction and the environmental restriction, the HST scheme configuration may be applied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Haitong Sun, Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Hong He, Jie Cui, Sigen Ye, Wei Zeng, Weidong Yang, Yushu Zhang
  • Patent number: 12066600
    Abstract: A camera includes a photosensor configured to capture light projected onto a surface of the photosensor and a lens system configured to refract light from an object field located in front of the camera to form an image of a scene at an image plane at or near the surface of the photosensor. The lens system comprises a plurality of refractive lens elements arranged along an optical axis of the camera. The lens system is configured to have a field-of-view (FOV) within a range of 110° to 140°, and the lens system has an F-number within a range of 2.2 to 2.8.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Yuhong Yao
  • Patent number: 12068859
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) and a network agree on the use of a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) codebook. The UE receives a plurality of downlink control information (DCI) transmissions during a corresponding plurality of physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) monitoring occasions from the base station, wherein each DCI transmission schedules multiple physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) transmissions on a corresponding one of a plurality of component carriers (CCs), receives a time domain resource allocation (TDRA) table configuration from the base station, determines a maximum number of PDSCH transmissions per CC based on the TDRA table configuration, groups the plurality of CCs together and determines a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ)-acknowledgement (ACK) codebook size based on a number of the multiple PDSCH transmissions, the maximum number of PDSCH transmissions, and a resulting ACK or negative acknowledgement (NACK) for each of the multiple PDSCH transmissions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Hong He, Chunhai Yao, Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Haitong Sun, Huaning Niu, Jie Cui, Oghenekome Oteri, Sigen Ye, Wei Zeng, Weidong Yang, Yang Tang, Yushu Zhang
  • Patent number: 12066869
    Abstract: An accessory device designed to receive and carry a portable electronic device is disclosed. The accessory device may include a first section having multiple segments configurable in different manners to form at least two different support angles, thereby supporting the portable electronic device in at least two different angles. Further, the accessory device may include an additional second section rotationally coupled to the first section. The second section may include one or more input mechanisms (e.g., keyboard, trackpad), as well as a magnetic assembly that magnetically couples with a device magnet (or device magnets) in the portable electronic device. The magnetic assembly defines a pivot point, or fulcrum, that allows the portable electronic device to rotate from the first angle to the second angle, or vice versa. The pivot point (defined by the magnetic assembly) removes the need for multiple, additional rows of magnets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Dylan L. Vassberg
  • Patent number: 12067196
    Abstract: An acoustic imaging system coupled to an acoustic medium to define an imaging surface. The acoustic imaging system includes an array of piezoelectric acoustic transducers formed at least in part from a thin-film piezoelectric material, such as PVDF. The array is coupled to the acoustic medium opposite the imaging surface and formed using a thin-film manufacturing process over an application-specific integrated circuit that, in turn, is configured to leverage on or more beamforming scan operations to drive the array of piezoelectric actuators to generate an image of an object at least partially wetting to the imaging surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Marcus C. Yip, Brian M. King, Jason S. Griesbach, Ehsan Khajeh, Aaron S. Tucker, Andrew W. Joyce, Giovanni Gozzini, Mohammad Yeke Yazdandoost, Gordon S. Franza
  • Patent number: 12068533
    Abstract: Techniques for implementing and/or operating a radio frequency system, which includes a logic board that outputs an analog electrical signal indicative of data to be wirelessly transmitted from the radio frequency system and a remote head. The remote head includes an antenna that generates an electromagnetic wave to facilitate wirelessly transmitting the data, an antenna integrated circuit implemented using a first semiconductor manufacturing technique, in which the antenna integrated circuit amplifies the analog electrical signal to generate a first amplified analog electrical signal, and a remote front-end integrated circuit coupled between the antenna integrated circuit and the antenna.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Berke Cetinoneri, Samia El Amrani, Qishan Yu
  • Patent number: 12068896
    Abstract: An approach is described for a method for a fifth generation (5G) wireless communication or a new radio (NR) system that includes the following steps. The method includes generating data samples associated with a sampling rate. The method further includes generating a waveform by populating a first slot and a second slot in a subframe of the waveform using the data samples, wherein slot durations of the first slot and the second slot in the subframe of the waveform equal respective durations of a first slot and a second slot in a subframe of a reference waveform to thereby align the first slot and the second slot in the subframe of the waveform with the respective first slot and second slot in the subframe of the reference waveform. The method further includes transmitting the waveform using front end circuitry, wherein the waveform is a single carrier waveform, and wherein the reference waveform is an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) waveform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jie Zhu, Gang Xiong, Daewon Lee
  • Patent number: 12067229
    Abstract: An electronic device detects a contact on a touch-sensitive surface of the electronic device, including a first portion of a gesture made with the contact, a second portion of the gesture that follows the first portion, and lift-off of the contact from the touch-sensitive surface during or after the second portion of the gesture. In response to detecting the second portion of the gesture, if a modifier input was detected while detecting the first portion of the gesture made with the contact, the electronic device performs a first operation and generates a first tactile output on the touch-sensitive surface. If the modifier input was not detected while detecting the first portion of the gesture, the electronic device performs a second operation different from the first operation and generates a second tactile output on the touch-sensitive surface, wherein the second tactile output is different from the first tactile output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Jeffrey Traer Bernstein, Julian K. Missig, Avi E. Cieplinski, B. Michael Victor
  • Patent number: 12066623
    Abstract: Various embodiments disclosed herein include optical aberration control for a camera system. Such a camera system may implement optical aberration control, e.g., by combining one or more variable focus devices with one or more actuators (e.g., a voice coil motor actuator) for moving a lens stack of the camera system to provide autofocus (AF) and/or optical image stabilization (OIS) functionality. A variable focus device may have variable optical power to achieve AF, OIS, and/or introduce optical aberrations such as spherical aberration. In some implementations, the variable focus device may be driven to introduce optical aberrations, and the actuator for moving the lens stack may be driven to compensate for the optical power from the variable focus device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Kevin A. Gross
  • Patent number: 12069733
    Abstract: Some embodiments of this disclosure include systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer-readable media for use in a wireless network for designing quality report for enhanced Machine Type Communication (EMTC) and Narrowband Internet of Things (NB-IOT). For example, some embodiments are directed to a user equipment (UE) including radio front end circuitry and processor circuitry coupled to the radio front end circuitry. The processor circuitry can be configured to determine a downlink (DL) quality metric based on a DL quality metric type and identify a message 3 (Msg3) signal based on the determined DL quality metric. The processor circuitry can further be configured to transmit, using the radio front end circuitry, the identified Msg3 signal to a base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Qiaoyang Ye, Bharat Shrestha, Debdeep Chatterjee, Gregory Morozov
  • Patent number: 12067328
    Abstract: An audio output device may join an existing session between a source device and another audio output device. The source device may transmit audio data associated with an audio session, using a first frequency band, to a first wireless audio output device and transmit connection information associated with the audio session to a second wireless audio output device over a second frequency band. The second frequency band differs from the first frequency band and the connection information allows the second wireless audio output device to join the audio session. After transmitting the connection information, the source device may transmit subsequent audio data associated with the audio session to the first wireless audio output device and the second wireless audio output device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Alon Paycher, Sriram Hariharan
  • Patent number: 12069722
    Abstract: Systems, devices, and techniques for wideband operations in unlicensed spectrum are described. A described technique receiving, by a user equipment (UE), a schedule for transmitting on a Physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) over at least a portion of a plurality of listen-before-talk (LBT) subbands of a bandwidth part (BWP) in an unlicensed spectrum. The scheduled PUSCH bandwidth indicated by the schedule can be greater than a unit bandwidth of a LBT subband. The technique includes performing, by the UE, a LBT procedure on each scheduled LBT subband of the plurality of LBT subbands, each of the scheduled LBT subbands being associated with the scheduled PUSCH bandwidth. The technique includes performing, by the UE, a PUSCH transmission in accordance with the schedule that uses one or more of the scheduled LBT subbands that have passed the LBT procedure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Yongjun Kwak, Bishwarup Mondal, Lopamudra Kundu, Jiwoo Kim
  • Patent number: 12069591
    Abstract: Disclosed is a system and method that allows a user equipment (UE) to perform a wireless measurement. The method configures a characteristic of a channel-state information reference signal (CSI-RS) for tracking of the UE. Also disclosed is a system and method to perform radio resource management (RRM) testing. Testing can include: setting a power level of CSI-RS for tracking to a smaller value that a power level of another RRM reference signal; or setting a negative power offset value of the CSI-RS for tracking to a synchronization signal (SS) of the RRM reference signal; or setting a positive power offset value of the CSI-RS for tracking to a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) of the RRM reference signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jie Cui, Zhibin Yu, Qiming Li, Yang Tang, Hua Li
  • Patent number: D1039381
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Arsalan Aslam, Grace Tsai, David Samuel Kumka, Molly Anderson, Clement Tissandier